Reggie Jackson Quotes
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So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start.
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True success is one of the greatest needs. Success is not something you stumble onto or come to by accident. It is something you must sincerely prepare for. Take a good look at successes, and you'll see he same consistent qualities all the time - qualities of one's character that make one strive for a goal with a standard of unmatched excellence.
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Fans don't boo nobodies.
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The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.
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I'll tell you what makes a great manager: A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you.
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I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it
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I'm the straw that stirs the drink.
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Once you realize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best.
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I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.
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A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
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Sometimes I underestimate the magnitude of me.
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Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.
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When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.
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If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.